Android P embraces a nick as it kills a Nexus

Google expelled a initial Android P developer preview on Wednesday, pity some sum about a categorical facilities it designed for Android’s evolution. The recover came as a surprise, as we approaching Android P to be denounced in mid-March, with a incoming Pi Day being a expected claimant for a event. Google didn’t go full nerd on this one.

However, now that Android P is here, we can strictly interpretation that Google is looking towards a destiny of mobile. Just as rumored, Android P will support nick designs going forward, creation it easier for vendors to rise smartphones that demeanour like a iPhone X. The nick is a future, and it usually so happens that Android P “kills” a past. No Nexus phone now in use out there will not accept a Android P update.

You see, behind when Google denounced a final Nexus phones, including a LG Nexus 5X and a Huawei 6P, it told buyers a phones will get guaranteed Android updates for dual years, while confidence updates will be accessible for an additional year.

The final guaranteed Android refurbish for a Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P was Oreo. In fact, we’re already past that Sep 2017 deadline when guaranteed updates finished for a dual handsets, so thy shouldn’t even run Android 8.1 Oreo during this point.

There’s always a possibility that Google changes a mind and pushes Android P to a dual 2015 Nexus phones, though don’t gamble on it. In a central Android P announcement, Google privately listed usually Pixel inclination as concordant with a initial developer preview. By a way, a Pixel and Pixel XL should not accept any vital Android updates after P rolls out.

The Android P Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with complement images for contrast on a central Android Emulator and on Pixel, Pixel XL Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL devices.

That said, it’s expected that revolutionary Android enthusiasts will find ways to pier Android P to a Nexus 5X and Nexus P after down a road.

What is certain about a dual phones is that monthly confidence updates are guaranteed by Nov 2018 for these final dual remaining handsets.

The final chronicle of Android P will be accessible for download on a Pixel inclination mentioned above during some indicate in a third entertain of a year, expected in August.